'Facilitated Communication' Not to Be Trusted

Facilitated communication is the name given to a procedure in which a comatose patient, or someone who is otherwise significantly impaired, guides their hand over a touchscreen keyboard to type a message, while their hand is being held by someone else. This method came under increased critici... [ read more >> ]

Experts wonder if the "facilitator" did not have anything to do with the message that the Belgian patient wrote

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Experts wonder if the "facilitator" did not have anything to do with the message that the Belgian patient wrote